Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuffle into pine and scrub-oak hills, twice we find ourselves within half a mile of a village in which several hundred Sandinista troops are stationed. Because they control the department's extensive system of roads, the Sandinistas can quickly move their 20,000 troops and supplies to any point in the area. My companions are equipped by the U.S. from Honduras, but they grumble that they had to carry the arms and supplies across the border on their backs. The F.D.N.'s single, ancient C-47 transport plane cannot be used in Nueva Segovia because of heavy...
...novel's title is the name of a shapeless pendant of marsh and sand that meets the Atlantic about midway between Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. Simons, pronounced Simmons ("I'm a rare one-m Simons"), lives in this area among the palmettos, scrub oaks, fiddler crabs, and slave descendants who speak Gullah and keep the faith at Marvin's R.O. Sweet Shop and Baby Grand. There, Simons says, "I am a celebrity because I'm white, not even teen-age yet, and possess the partial aura of the Duchess...
...launch at least for a day while ground controllers probed the Westar accident. If Indonesia requested a deferral until a later mission, the shuttle would have to bring the satellite back to earth. The added weight would speed the shuttle's descent on landing, possibly forcing NASA to scrub a Florida touchdown...
Before Alex can be properly cremated, he rises miraculously from the dead and dons a surgical scrub suit from the Nice morgue. He retrieves his clothes, passport and traveler's checks from his hotel room, and takes off for California, with the baffled Marie in pursuit. She locates her still groggy spouse in a Carmel motel. He is taking his pulse in wonderment; his heart, he notes, has a tendency to stop. Indeed, he drops dead from time to time, then comes to life. Marie now vows to do the mysterious thing she failed to do before. That...
...streets, men in tattered clothing water shrubs, scrub public monuments, whitewash scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered...